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ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Second Award
Martian agriculture may be the most cost-effective means to develop a sustainable human life support system on Mars by employing in-situ resource utilization to convert atmospheric CO2 into…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences First Award
Drought is the most serious threat to global food production and sufficiency. Late detection of drought stress in plants leads to irreversible crop damage and yield loss. The standard method…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
A food desert is defined as an area where 30% of citizens live more than 1 mile from a grocery store. Factors like shipping cost, shipping time, and shelf life, cause store owners say import…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Chemical fertilizers, though productive in the short-run, rely heavily on nonrenewable resources that may deplete in the near future. Besides, oversupplied nutrients can harm nearby environm…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on plant growth and photosynthesis. This work involved growing Arabidopsis thalia…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The traditional Japanese farming method of mugifumi refers to the process of treading the soil and seedlings of grain. Mugifumi causes changes such as stalk thickening and tillering promotio…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Many nature reserves use exclosures to preserve pockets of native plant biodiversity. These exclosures typically have a higher proportion of native plants with fewer invasive species to harm…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Third Award
Plant viruses cause considerable economic losses of crops. However, it is difficult to develop effective crop virucides due to the intracellular infectivity of viruses. Plants usually trigge…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
It is predicted that fresh water scarcity will affect over half of the global population as a consequence of continued population growth, increasing industry, and global warming. Research ha…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Microplastics are more prevalent than before and pose an emerging threat to aquatic biodiversity. The purpose of this study was to examine how three common types of plastics can affect the g…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Mangroves are critical members of tropical coastline ecosystems. They offer residence to various aquatic biota and protect the coastline from erosion due to their high root density. In the c…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Second Award
Legumes form root nodules in which nitrogen-fixing bacteria are housed and flavonoids are necessary to activate nodulation genes in rhizobia. Isoflavonoids are known to protect legumes from…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Nations across the world cannot produce their own crops due to their non-arable land. The research conducted in this experiment put simple and efficient systems of hydroponics to the test. T…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Approximately 40% of all agricultural production is lost due to pests. HR4 (HOMOLOG OF RPW8 4) confers resistance to Myzus persicae, more commonly known as the green peach aphid (GPA), which…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Fishing is one of the top outdoor activities in America. In South Dakota, over 170,000 fishing licenses were sold in 2020. With the thousands and thousands of fish people catch, that means t…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
COVID-19 pandemic is life-threatening. We need to boost our body's immunity against infection. Literature review shows that microgreens can provide nine times more vitamins and minerals than…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Second Award
Global warming and the rapidly growing world population are among the most serious issues that threaten global food security. A new approach to support plant productivity is through exploiti…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The wavelength and intensity of light regulates the growth and development of plants and influences their physiology and morphology both above and below the ground. To study the effects of l…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Trifolium fragiferum (strawberry clover) is a wild legume species found rarely in Northern European seaside areas and is genetically close to domesticated clover species. Seven micro-populat…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to observe how overcrowding in soybeans affects their growth. To investigate this idea, the student planted one to eight seeds of 2 soybean varieties in 5 c…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Sedges, such as purple and yellow nutsedge, are extremely harmful weeds that are hurting the agricultural industry. It is imperative that we find a solution to control nutsedge growth in Flo…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Guava is a commercial fruit of Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand. From guava orchard surveys, most of fruit damage caused by fruit flies (Bactrocera spp). Therefore, this study aimed to invent…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The shape and size of a plant’s seed impact how well it is able to scatter and move over time, notably in changing environmental circumstances. As the environment changes, the survival of th…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
The importance of soils for the environment and for humans is often underestimated. Soils are an integral component of nutrient and water cycles and ultimately constitute our basis of life.…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Stem cells are critical for the development of all tissue types. The stem cells located within the Shoot Apical Meristem (SAM) of plants produce all above-ground plant parts that account for…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Due to weather-related constraints, taking care of Plants in an indoor environment is a challenging task. Several factors influence the growing process of Plants, including soil humidity, hu…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Inspired by the low and declining cropland microorganism populations in agriculture today, the goal of my study was to determine if specific cropland soil adjustments could better prepare so…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Desertification, which is increasing at an alarming rate, imposes food insecurities for nations with huge desert areas and weakens ecosystems. Many methods, like sand fences, have been devel…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Third Award
Recent Innovations in Precision Agriculture (PA) are driven by Computer Vision and Data Processing systems to quantify plant parameters. Quantitative analysis of Plant Phenotyping in PA and…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Eggplant is an important vegetable crop, which is rich in varieties with high nutritional and medicinal values. However, the reduction of output often occurred in the eggplant production bec…